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Hashing some content is often used for internal processing in most cases. You hash some data and store it into the database. Since it is a one-way function you always have to hash new data to be able to compare it with already hashed data (e.g. passwords) There are well know hash algorithms like md5.

Signing a message goes the same way. You create a hash value from the message, then you use your private key to encrypt that hash string.
Someone checking the signature requires your public key to generate the original hash value (this goes without the need of a password!) then you get a hash string. Now you hash (with the same hash function as the sender used like md5) the original message and compare both hashes - if they are equal the message is unchanged.

Someone without access to the private key of the sender is not able to create a signature that can be decrypted with the senders public key, so this is quite safe.
The advantage of using a hash function is, regardless how long the original message was, you always get the same hash length.

As you can see there is no way to get the original message back, the result of the hash function contains not enough data to be able to decrypt it.
But the hash string is perfect to fit into a signature of an email. Of cause it needs to be "encrypted" with a pgp private key to be safe from modifications.

A hash allows you to detect if the message has changed since the hash was generated, typically this is checking for corruption in transit but it also allows you to detect if the message has been altered.
Of course if someone altered the message deliberately then they could generate a new hash. So a signature encrypts this with someones private key, which only the original creator should have. If you can decrypt the hash with that persons public key and it all matches up you now know that the message is intact and that it had to have come from the original sender (non-repudiation).

(we keep saying message here, but the same process scales up to files, media etc)

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